Modern Industrialization Sound Addon in FTB Skies 2: Aero

Same as in the All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 guide

Modern Industrialization Sound Addon is a small quality-of-life addon for Modern Industrialization. As the name says, it adds sound: every singleblock and multiblock machine in Modern Industrialization gets its own noises, and so does using the wrench. If your factory has ever felt eerily quiet, this is the fix.^[1]

The pack includes version 1.3.1-1.21.1 of the addon.^[2]

The Steel Mallet

The addon also adds a Steel Mallet. Right-click a machine with it to silence the machine, and right-click again to unsilence it. That's handy once a big factory gets loud.^[1]

Who it's for

It's for anyone building with Modern Industrialization who wants a more lively base. It adds no new machines or processing chains, so there's nothing new to learn.^[1]

For modpack makers

If you add custom Modern Industrialization machines through the KubeJS compatibility, the addon's author has a guide for giving them sounds too. KubeJS is listed as an optional dependency of the addon.^[1]

Where it fits in progression

Unverified The sources don't place this addon anywhere in the pack's progression. No quests or ATM Star path steps involving it were found, so treat it as an optional extra and not something you need to unlock.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

This addon adds sounds to the singleblock and multiblock machines in Modern Industrialization, and it adds noises when you use the wrench. The one thing you can craft yourself is the Steel Mallet, so that is where you start.^[1]

Your first steps

1. Craft the Steel Mallet. The recipe block below is the exact one used in this pack.^[3][4]
2. Right-click one of your machines with the mallet to silence it. Right-click it again to unsilence it. You get a "Machine Silenced" or "Machine Unsilenced" message each time, so you always know which state it is in.^[1][4]
3. If you would rather tune sounds than silence machines one by one, open the config file and adjust volumes there (see below).^[5]

Steel MalletChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Steel Plate	String
Empty slot	Stick	Steel Plate
Stick	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mi_sound_addon:mallet

The Steel Mallet, used to silence and unsilence machines.

If you are looking for the mallet in the creative inventory, it sits in the creative tab called "MI Sound Addon".^[4]

Tuning the sound in the config

The pack leaves every volume option at the mod default of 1, and each one accepts values from 0.0 to 5.0. Until you change something, machines and wrenches sound just as the addon intends.^[5]

There are also on/off switches: machine_sounds_enabled, generator_sounds_enabled, wrench_sounds_enabled and config_card_sounds_enabled. All of them are set to true in the pack.^[5]

Individual machines have their own volume options too. For example, macerator_volume controls the Macerator and wrench_volume controls the wrench.^[5]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

This addon is all about sound. It adds sounds to the singleblock and multiblock machines in Modern Industrialization, and it adds noises to wrench uses too.^[1]

Silencing machines with the Steel Mallet

If a machine room gets too noisy, grab the Steel Mallet. Right-click a machine with it to silence it, and right-click again to unsilence it. The game tells you which one happened with a "Machine Silenced" or "Machine Unsilenced" message.^[1][4]

Steel MalletChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Steel Plate	String
Empty slot	Stick	Steel Plate
Stick	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mi_sound_addon:mallet

In this pack the Steel Mallet is a shaped crafting recipe that comes from the mod itself.

Sound toggles in the config

The pack's config file is config/mi_sound_addon-common.toml. It has on/off switches for machine, generator, wrench and config card sounds, and all of them are set to true in this pack, so everything is audible out of the box.^[5]

• machine_sounds_enabled turns machine sounds on or off.^[5]
• generator_sounds_enabled does the same for generator sounds.^[5]
• wrench_sounds_enabled controls the wrench noises.^[5]
• config_card_sounds_enabled controls the config card sounds.^[5]

Per-machine volume

Most machines get their own volume option, and each one accepts a value from 0.0 to 5.0. Every volume in this pack is set to 1, which is also the mod's default, so the pack has not changed any of them.^[5]

A few examples are macerator_volume, electric_blast_furnace_volume, distillation_tower_volume, fusion_reactor_volume and quarry_volume. There are also entries for the wrench (wrench_volume) and the config card (config_card_volume).^[5]

Custom machines

The mod's author says that if custom machines are added to Modern Industrialization through the KubeJS compatibility, sounds for them can be added by following a guide on the mod's wiki.^[1]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Modern Industrialization Sound Addon is an add-on for Modern Industrialization, and in this pack the only recipe the sources show for one of its items is the Steel Mallet. It is a shaped crafting recipe added by the mod itself, so you make it in a normal crafting grid.^[3]

Steel MalletChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Steel Plate	String
Empty slot	Stick	Steel Plate
Stick	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mi_sound_addon:mallet

The in-pack recipe for the Steel Mallet, the one item recipe from this mod in the pack's recipe dump.

Unverified Whether the pack's quest book places this mod in any chapter, and how it fits into the Modern Industrialization tiers, is told by the quest book itself. The sources here do not show it, so this guide gives no tier breakdown for the mod.

The link you can see in the pack's recipes is small: Modern Industrialization Sound Addon connects to FTB Materials through one crafting recipe, the one for the Steel Mallet.^[6]

The pack changes that recipe. It is a shaped crafting recipe that uses an item from FTB Materials alongside vanilla items, so the mallet is built from the pack's own materials rather than from the mod's default recipe. Here is the exact in-pack recipe:^[6]

Steel MalletChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Steel Plate	String
Empty slot	Stick	Steel Plate
Stick	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mi_sound_addon:mallet

This is the pack's version of the recipe.

The mallet itself is the mod's tool for silencing and unsilencing machines: you right-click a machine with it. The mod adds sounds to the singleblock and multiblock machines of Modern Industrialization, and the mallet is how you turn that noise off again.^[1]

Beyond that mallet recipe, the sources here show no other recipes that combine this mod with items from other mods.^[6]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Good news: this addon is simple to tune. The config file is config/mi_sound_addon-common.toml, and in this pack none of the volume values were changed. Every volume is set to 1, which matches the mod default.^[5]

Master sound toggles

A handful of on/off switches control whole categories of sound. This pack has all of them set to true, so everything is audible out of the box.^[5]

• machine_sounds_enabled is true. Set it to false if the machines get too noisy.^[5]
• generator_sounds_enabled is true.^[5]
• wrench_sounds_enabled is true.^[5]
• config_card_sounds_enabled is true.^[5]

Per-machine volumes

Each machine has its own volume option, and every one accepts a value from 0.0 to 5.0. A few examples are macerator_volume, electric_blast_furnace_volume, turbine_volume, quarry_volume and fusion_reactor_volume. All of them are set to 1 in this pack.^[5]

Tool volumes work the same way: wrench_volume and config_card_volume are both 1 here.^[5]

Good to know

The mod has to be installed on both the client and the server to work. It also has a Steel Mallet, which you can right-click on a machine to silence or unsilence it. That is handy when you want to mute one noisy machine instead of changing the config.^[1]

FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 ships Modern Industrialization Sound Addon 1.3.1-1.21.1, and the mod has been in the pack since 1.0.3 or earlier. Here are the notable changes from the mod's own changelogs for the 1.2.0, 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 releases.^{[7][8][9][10]}

1.3.1 (the version in this pack)

• All boilers, turbines and diesel generators now have sounds.^[7]
• Pack makers can add custom sounds to custom MI generators through KubeJS. The mod's wiki explains how.^[7]
• Applying Redstone Control Modules and Overdrive Modules to machines now plays a sound.^[7]
• The Tesla Tower's sound now comes from the top rather than the controller.^[7]
• The composter sound was converted to mono audio.^[7]
• The wrench sound, which had stopped working after a previous patch, is fixed.^[7]
• Added YAI! compat and updated the mod's dependencies.^[7]

1.3.0

• Added sounds to Extended Industrialization singleblock machines and the Tesla Coil / Tesla Tower.^[8]
• Added sounds to the Industrialization Overdrive Pyrolyse Oven.^[8]
• New feedback sounds: adding upgrades to machines, using a pipe config card to store or change pipe settings, and using a wrench to change a machine's orientation.^[8]
• Machines added by addons get their sounds registered again.^[8]
• Volume settings in the config are now actually applied on load. Before, they were never set.^[8]

1.2.0

• Added Tesseract-API batch crafter compat.^[9]
• Fixes for newer MI versions above 2.4.0.^[9]